Route 79 is a state highway in southern
Connecticut
Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...
from
Madison to
Durham.
Route description
Route 79 begins at
US 1
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway System, United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort ...
in
Madison center and heads north across
I-95
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Florida, north to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between Maine and the ...
(at Exit 61). It continues north, intersecting with Horse Pond Road (an unsigned state road designated as
Special Service Road 450), which leads to the town offices, and eventually,
Hammonasset Beach State Park. Route 79 continues into the village of North Madison where it has an intersection with
Route 80 at a
roundabout
A roundabout, a rotary and a traffic circle are types of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junct ...
. The road continues north into the town of
Killingworth
Killingworth is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, within the historic county of Northumberland.
Killingworth was built as a new town in the 1960s, next to Killingworth Village, which existed for centuries before the new town ...
, intersecting
Route 148 just south of the town line with
Durham. The road runs north for another within Durham before ending at
Route 17 south of the town center. Route 79 is known as Durham Road within Madison, Madison-Durham Road within Killingworth, and Madison Road within Durham.
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History
In the 19th century, the road from Madison to Durham was known as the Durham and East Guilford Turnpike, a private toll-road established in 1811. When the state took over maintenance of trunkline routes in 1922, the alignment of the old turnpike was designated as State Highway 190. Route 79 was established in the 1932 state highway renumbering as a simple number change of old Highway 190.
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Junction list
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{{Portal, Connecticut
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Transportation in Middlesex County, Connecticut
Transportation in New Haven County, Connecticut